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<span class="">By <span><span class="underline"><a class="text-text-sub-600 gg-dark:text-gray-100 font-semibold" href="/author/jose" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jose Antonio Lanz</a></span></span></span> <span class="">Edited by <span><span class="underline"><a class="text-text-sub-600 gg-dark:text-gray-100 font-semibold " href="/author/guillermo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Guillermo Jimenez</a></span></span></span> <span class="whitespace-nowrap">Oct 17, 2026Oct 17, 2026</span> Meta employees burned through 60 trillion AI tokens in 30 days earlier this year, chasing spots on an internal leaderboard nicknamed "Claudeonomics." Tech columnist Gergely Orosz <a href="https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-pulse-tokenmaxxing-as-a-weird-new-trend/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>estimated the tab</a> at roughly $900 million at Anthropic's list prices, though Meta likely pays far less. Bain & Company consultant Jue Wang sees a quieter version of that waste everywhere: "So many companies, so many users, default to using Opus for everything, including generating emails," she <a href="https://wtop.com/news/2026/07/a-flex-in-corporate-america-ai-tokenmaxxing-fades-as-workplaces-look-to-cut-tech-spending/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>told the Associated Press</a> this summer, referring to Anthropic's high-end models. If you do the same thing, you're hiring Albert Einstein to calculate your change at a MacDonald’s. Every word you type into ChatGPT or Claude, and every word it writes back, is metered in <a href="https://help.openai.com/en/articles/4936856-what-are-tokens-and-how-to-count-them" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>tokens</a>, chunks of text that average about three-quarters of a word. On a $20 subscription that meter decides how fast you hit your usage limit. On the API, the pay-per-token access developers use to plug models into their own apps, it decides the bill. Here's Anthropic's current <a href="https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>price list</a>, per million tokens: Haiku's rate applies to prompts under 100,000 tokens; longer prompts cost five times as much. The top model costs 100 times more than the smallest, and OpenAI's <a href="https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>own lineup</a> runs the same spread, from $10 to $0.10 per million input tokens. Those per-token prices add up fast for the labs—and you: Anthropic's revenue run rate went from about $9 billion at the end of 2025 to more than <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/29/anthropic/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>$47 billion</a> by May, while OpenAI is fighting a <a href="https://decry
KuCoin suspends USDC deposit services on the Noble network.
According to CoinWorld news, KuCoin has announced that due to necessary maintenance, it has temporarily suspended USDC deposit services on the Noble network. Users will be unable to make USDC deposits during this period, and KuCoin apologizes for the inconvenience caused. KuCoin will not notify users separately with further updates regarding the restoration of the service. Users are advised to refer to the original English version for the most accurate information.
NVDA off-exchange short sale volume reported at 39.8%
CoinWorld US stock data: NVDA's off-exchange short selling volume accounted for 39.8% of the total that day. This is down 1.8072 percentage points compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days earlier.
The European Securities and Markets Authority updates the MICA register, adding 9 new service providers.
CoinWorld news: The European Securities and Markets Authority has updated the MiCA register, adding 9 crypto asset service providers, bringing the number of registered independent service providers to 375. The newly added list includes BingX's Austrian entity Mege Zweite, YouHodler's Italian subsidiary, OpenBank Deutschland, Prakma Markets, VR-Bank Alb-Blau-Donau, and VR Bank im Südlichen Franken. The electronic money token register records 50 entries involving 25 independent entities. The asset-referenced token register is empty. The register of non-compliant crypto asset service providers increased by 5 entries to 178.
BTC liquidations totaled $61.4412 million over the past 24 hours.
According to BiJie.com data: BTC's rolling 24-hour liquidation amount is approximately 61.4412 million USD, involving about 4,205 liquidated accounts. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 24 hours ago, it is up 53.48%; compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it is up 17.08%.
Crypto lending vault deposits surpass $10 billion, Two Prime launches lending vault.
According to Bijie.com data: deposits in crypto lending vaults have surpassed $10 billion, up from $4 billion at the beginning of last year. Such products operate on DeFi smart contracts, with annualized yields ranging from 3% to over 20%, and participants include fintech companies, crypto treasuries, and hedge funds. Two Prime launched a Bitcoin lending vault on Pareto in September, using WBTC as the underlying asset, targeting an annualized yield of 1.5% to 2%, setting a minimum deposit threshold of 5 WBTC, with the institution committing tens of millions of dollars of its own capital to absorb first-loss exposure.
Analyst: BNB Chain completes its 37th quarterly automatic burn of approximately 1.646 million BNB.
According to CoinWorld news, BNB Chain has announced the completion of its 37th quarterly automatic BNB burn, with approximately 1.646 million BNB burned, worth about $1 billion at the price at the time of calculation. The automatic BNB burn determines the burn scale automatically based on the BNB price and the number of BNB Smart Chain blocks within the quarter, with the goal of gradually reducing the total BNB supply to 100 million. In addition, BNB Chain also continuously burns a portion of on-chain gas fees through BEP-95.
The long-to-short account ratio for ETH contracts is 2.72.
CoinWorld data: The ETHUSDT 4-hour long-short account ratio is 2.72, with more net long accounts than net short accounts. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 24 hours ago, it is down 0.2443; compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it is up 0.0558.
JPMorgan launches crypto stablecoin 'JPM Coin' on Ethereum
According to WatcherGuru, JPMorgan has launched the crypto stablecoin 'JPM Coin' on Ethereum, allowing institutional clients to make 24/7 transfers.
CryptoQuant: The share of Bitcoin inflows to exchanges over 6-12 months has fallen to 4.4%.
Bjie.com data: According to Cointelegraph, among Bitcoin transferred within 6-12 months, 4.4% has reached exchanges, down from 40.4% in June, indicating that selling pressure has eased somewhat.